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Thanks for running that test. It is not typical of a 6 pin PCI-e connector though and the greater power draw was something that was allowed for in the design. "The PCI Express specification calls for a maximum provision of 300W for graphics, both HD 4870 X2 and HD 5970 max this specification...

Do you even know what we were talking about?

No offence but that analogy sucks :) The extra MHz on the CPU comes from giving it more power. You could perhaps lower the Vcore and add MHz and keep at the same power draw but you are not getting something for nothing. You are limited by the amount of power + how efficiently the device can...

I will believe it when I see it. 1 x 8 pin = 150 watts 1 x 6 pin = 75 watts PCI-e power = 75 watts 300 watts total and max power usage at stock clocks is 294 watts. So where are the extra watts coming from to overclock this thing? There is a reason that they downclocked it to only...

Hi My max was 250 HT speed 100% stable on the f5 bios with my Phenom 2 920. The board would start to have issues after that. I had to replace my CMOS battery after I changed the Ram Divider and had the no boot issue. Since then I havn't had the issue again so maybe the bug has been wiped...

I love how the articles called Intel pushes for Next Gen netbooks when in reality they have been doing the exact opposite. Intel would much rather sell notebooks so they can make more money. These CPU's are intentionally crippled and integrating a rubbish GPU is actually a bad thing for next...

I really don't like the F6 BIOS it causes instant shutdowns when changing from 800 to 1066 RAM divider and saving settings. When changing from 800 - 1066 the first time the motherboard powered off but started again no problem and had retained the settings when I manually powered it back on...

Ok the version here works and fixes the problem. http://forums.techpowerup.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=29816&d=1256126519

Riva tuner can read the clocks. Maybe Wizzard would have more luck asking them than ATI.

Doesn't matter if its idle or not. Seems I have the same card as Exeodus. Its an Asus 5850 Stock Bios: http://www.divshare.com/download/9149668-3d7

Same thing for me with a Asus 5850 and Windows x64 Pro.

RBE did allow for adjusting the voltages within defined limits on the 4850. The minimum was 0.892 volts maximum was 1.158. This did work for my card I guess they changed some regulators with the 4770 series or support was just not added to RBE. The 5800 series has a much more configurable...

Nice article, it was very informative. Out of interest if you run PCI-E 2.0 8x at 125MHz Bus speed does that increase the bandwidth to 5 GB/s?

Apparantly they don't plan new AMD chipsets either. http://www.fudzilla.com/content/view/15852/69/. It seems that Nvidia are pulling out of less profitable highend products so they can focus their efforts on more profitable areas like netbook and mobile phone chipsets. It is bad news for...

Confirmed same thing on Windows XP SP3.